Biography

Kostas Hatzis is regarded, undisputedly, as one of the best and, at the same time, most pioneer creators in the social song. He is the one who has substantially imposed the “voice-guitar” style, and for the first time he made ballads with social messages heard. He has formed, with his diachronic, 50-years’ presence, a school, and many generations of song-makers have followed his track and have accomplished important achievements in the Greek art-song of the following years.

Kostas Hatzis was born in Livadia. His grand-father was a great popular clarinettist, and his father also played very well the dulcimer. Therefore, it didn’t take Kostas long to follow his family’s steps.
When he was sixteen years’ old, his father used to take him with him and he sang in weddings and christenings and in any other event, in which demotic, mainly, music was necessary. After a five-year itinerancy in the country, he came to Athens, where he was a stranger among strangers.